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The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike. We want poems that explore the worlds of things and ideas, that recognize the liminality, the shifting of everything around us and our ability to name a thing whole. We want poems that press and push and ache and recede. Send us your best. We publish 4 times a year, once each season.

Our reading period is currently: OPEN

Submissions for ISSUE FIFTEEN: AUTUMN 2022 will close September 1.
Submission Guidelines:
To submit, email 3-5 poems in a single document in .doc or .docx format to theshorepoetry@gmail.com with the subject line: "Last Name_First Name THE SHORE submission" with a cover letter and third-person bio included in the body of the email. Any submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be discarded.

We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you notify us if the piece is accepted elsewhere, but we do not accept reprints. Upon acceptance, please withdraw your poems from other consideration. We ask that you please only submit once per reading period. We also ask that former contributors please wait a year from their date of publication to submit again.

Poetry Editors:
Caroline Chavatel, Emma DePanise, John A. Nieves

Interview Editor: Taylor N. Schaefer
Social Media Manager: Adam D. Weeks
Review Editor: Tyler Truman Julian
Blog Editor: Sarah Brockhaus
Art Editor: Ella Flores

FORMER STAFF
Founding Interview Editor: Ellery Beck
Former Blog Editor: Renae Tucker

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The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike. We want poems that explore the worlds of things and ideas, that recognize the liminality, the shifting of everything around us and our ability to name a thing whole.

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The journal welcomes unsolicited flash, poetry and fiction submissions by both emerging, and established authors. We admire all forms of transgressive, absurdist, and minimalist literature. To get an idea of what kind of work we like, please see the various works we have published in the past. We do not believe in silent rejections, we send a response to all submissions. Our response time is about four weeks. Usually sooner.

Maudlin House acquires first publication rights, but you, the writer, still own your work. What this means is that we hold the publication rights for 30 days after our issue publication. After 30 days, you are free to publish and submit your work elsewhere. We kindly ask for acknowledgment for subsequent reprints of your work.

Gratitude and admiration for now.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORK. Any work that has been posted or otherwise made publicly available online is considered to have been "previously published". This includes blogs and social media sites. We do, however, accept simultaneous submissions. We encourage them and wish you luck in getting your work published. Just be sure to immediately notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Please submit only one piece at time (unless we ask explicitly to see more work). We will get back to you in a timely fashion, at which time you can send in more work. We ask this because there are only so many hours and so much coffee available to us. We want to be able to give each and every submission the time and consideration that they deserve.

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The journal welcomes unsolicited flash, poetry and fiction submissions by both emerging, and established authors. We admire all forms of transgressive, absurdist, and minimalist literature. To get an idea of what kind of work we like, please see the various works we have published in the past.

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Please read these guidelines carefully before submitting.

wildness accepts submissions of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and considers work in most styles, forms, or genres. For a better idea of our preferences, we always recommend reading through our previous issues.

We currently publish our issues biannually (in April and August) and read submissions on a rolling basis-all work submitted will simply be considered for the next open issue.

For poetry, please send no more than 10 poems; with fiction and non-fiction, please limit the submission to 5,000 words.

Please only submit previously unpublished work, and though simultaneous submissions are okay, please mention it in your email. (Also, should your work be accepted elsewhere, please do let us know.)

All submissions should include a third-person bio and short cover note in the body of the email. The work should be attached in a single .docx or PDF file-please do not submit using OneDrive or Google Docs.

We aim to reply within a month of receipt; please do query us if it's been longer than this.

Though the owner of the work retains copyright upon publication, you agree to grant wildness first serial/electronic rights, as well as electronic archival rights (in perpetuity). You also agree that if the work is published subsequently (online or in print), credit to wildness is to be given.

Unfortunately, at this time, though we are always looking for ways to do so, we are unable to offer payment to contributors. We do, however, nominate for most major prizes (Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best American, etc.) and continue to promote contributors after publication.

If you would like to support us, please consider contributing to our tip jar -all monies will go to the hosting and upkeep of the website.

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The Poetry Society of America presents a number of awards and award programs each year.

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The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.

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Glassworks seeks submissions in artwork, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, flash, and hybrid forms. If accepted, o ur contract includes exclusive First North American Serial Rights and First…

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CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize — Guest Judge Grant Faulkner

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CRAFT - CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize — Guest Judge Grant Faulkner

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CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize
$3,600 Awarded
Guest Judge: Grant Faulkner
September 1 – November 2, 2025
Small, but mighty: CRAFT’s Flash Prose Prize returns! In only a matter of moments, flash prose can harness the tension and energy of a short story, while wielding the emotional resonance of poetry. For the CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize, Guest Judge Grant Faulkner offers flash writers some heartfelt advice:
It is so difficult to write about what I’m looking for because the best stories somehow speak to what you didn’t know you were looking for. Perhaps that’s why I like stories that are about the questions, not the answers, the best. I tend to gravitate to stories that take some sort of risk, reside in a state of contradiction, offer nuances and layers and counterpoints. I always say that vulnerability is a writer’s most important craft tool, so I love when I feel an intimate and heartfelt connection to a story. Open your heart.
Submissions are open for both flash fiction and flash creative nonfiction from September 1 to November 2, 2025. Entries cost $20. Three winners will receive $1,000 each. Three additional editors’ choice selections will receive $200 each. Please carefully review our guidelines below—then send us your best flash prose!
GUIDELINES: Submissions are open to all writers. CRAFT is a market for adult literary fiction. International submissions are welcome. Work must be written primarily in English, but some code-switching/meshing is warmly welcomed. Please submit flash prose only! We’ll review both fiction and creative nonfiction for this prize. Please adhere to the 1,000 word count maximum per piece (you may send up to two flash prose pieces per submission). We review literary work but are open to a variety of genres and styles. Our only requirement is that you show excellence in your craft. Submit previously unpublished work only—we do not review reprints, or even partial reprints, for contests (including any form of self-publishing, blogs, personal websites, social media, et cetera). Reprints will be automatically disqualified. We allow simultaneous submissions—writers, please notify us immediately and withdraw your entry if your work is accepted to be published elsewhere. The $20 reading fee per entry allows up to two 1,000-word flash prose pieces—if submitting two works, please send them in a single document. We allow multiple submissions—please submit each flash piece (or set of two pieces) as a separate submission accompanied by a separate entry fee. All entries will be considered for general publication in CRAFT. Please double-space your submission and use Times New Roman 12. Please include a brief cover letter with your publication history and any content warnings, if applicable. We do not require anonymous submissions, but the guest judge will review the fifteen shortlisted pieces anonymously. Writers from historically marginalized groups will be able to submit for free until we reach fifty free submissions. This free category will close when we reach capacity. No additional fee waivers will be granted—please submit early if you qualify. Note: Submission cap has been met. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, disability, family status, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation, or for any other reason. Additionally, we do not tolerate discrimination in the writing we consider for publication: work we find discriminatory on any of the bases stated here will be declined without complete review. AI-generated or -assisted submissions will be automatically disqualified. Unless you’ve already secured the necessary permissions, please do not include quoted song lyrics in your submitted work. Any work that does not adhere to these guidelines will be automatically disqualified. We are always happy to help if you have questions. Email us: contact@craftliterary.com. AWARDS:
The writers of the three winning pieces will receive: $1,000 each; a bundle of the Rose Metal Press Field Guides; and publication in CRAFT, with an introduction by the guest judge as well as an author’s note (short craft essay) to accompany the piece. The writers of the three editors’ choice selections will receive: $200 each; and publication in CRAFT, with an introduction by our editorial team as well as an author’s note (short craft essay) to accompany the piece. FINE PRINT: Friends, family, and close associates of the guest judge are not eligible for consideration for the award. Our collaboration with editorial professionals in the judging and awarding of our contests does not imply an endorsement or recognition from their agencies, houses, presses, universities, et cetera. Check out our 2024 winners for examples of the type of work we seek. The winning pieces will be published in April 2026. GUEST JUDGE:
GRANT FAULKNER is the cofounder of Memoir Nation, the cofounder of 100 Word Story, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author. He has published three books on writing: The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story; Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo; and Brave the Page, a teen writing guide. He’s also published All the Comfort Sin Can Provide, a collection of short stories, Fissures, a collection of 100-word stories, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. His “flash novel,” something out there in the distance, a collaboration with the photographer Gail Butensky, is coming out in 2026 with the University of New Mexico Press. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Tin House, Southwest Review, and The Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such as Norton’s Flash Fiction America; New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction; and in several editions of the annual Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction anthologies.
His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He serves on the National Writing Project Writers Council, Litquake’s Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Words’ Creative Council, and Left Margin LIT’s Advisory Board. Find Grant online on Facebook and Instagram. Listen to his podcast Memoir Nation and subscribe to his newsletter Intimations: A Writer’s Discourse.
CONTEST PARTNER:
Founded in 2006, ROSE METAL PRESS is a not-for-profit publisher specializing in the publication of literary work in hybrid genres, including flash fiction and nonfiction; prose poetry; novels-in-verse or book-length linked narrative poems; novellas-in-flash; lyric essays; text and image works; and other literary works that move beyond the traditional genres of poetry, fiction, and essay to find new forms of expression.
OPTIONAL EDITORIAL FEEDBACK:
You may choose to receive editorial feedback on your flash prose. We will provide marginal notes, as well as a two-page global letter discussing the strengths of the writing and the recommended focus for revision. While editorial feedback is inherently subjective, our suggestions are always actionable and encouraging. We aim to have feedback completed within twelve weeks from the close of the contest. Work that we critique is not eligible for submission to future CRAFT contests, but can be revised and resubmitted in our general categories for further consideration. Should your submission be offered publication, no feedback will be provided and your fee will be refunded.

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Aquarius Press/Willow Books Fall Poetry Chapbook Competition

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Please submit manuscripts in standard format. Revisions to submissions require a new fee. If your work has been selected, you will be notified--due to the volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to respond on an individual basis.

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BOA Editions - 2025 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize

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25th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize: August 1 - November 30, 2025.
The A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize is awarded to honor a poet’s first book, while also honoring the late founder of BOA Editions, Ltd., a not-for-profit publishing house of poetry and poetry in translation.
This Year’s Judge: Rigoberto González
Winner Receives: Book publication by BOA Editions, Ltd. in spring 2027 $1,000 honorarium Submissions are invited only through Submittable or by post mail. We do not have the staff capacity to read or respond to manuscripts that are submitted by fax or email.
Submission fee: $30
Please note that, without the submission fee, we would not be able to accept contest submissions, or to offer a $1,000 prize to each winner. As BOA is a non-profit press with limited staff capacity, contest submission fees allow us to maintain sufficient editorial resources for careful review of each and every manuscript. We understand that submission fees can be difficult to accommodate, but rest assured that because of them, your submission will be carefully read, reviewed, and considered for this prestigious prize. Thank you for your understanding.
Physical Submissions
All physical manuscripts must be mailed (or postmarked) to the below BOA Editions address by November 30, 2025. Please be sure to include the entry form and the $30 entry fee with your submission. Send one copy of each manuscript. Make check or money orders payable to BOA Editions. Do not pay by cash or credit card.
Download the Entry Form (PDF)
Send manuscripts, postmarked between August 1 - November 30, to. For more information please visit: https://www.boaeditions.org/pages/a-poulin-jr-poetry-prize Electronic Submissions
All entries must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on November 30. Eligibility: Entrants must be a U.S. citizen, a legal resident of the U.S., or have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), or Legal Permanent Status (LPS). Entrants must be at least 18 years of age. Only manuscripts by poets who have yet to publish a full-length book collection of poetry will be considered. Individual poems in the submitted manuscript may have been published previously in magazines, journals, anthologies, chapbooks, or self-published books, but these poems must be submitted as part of an original manuscript. Any published books of poetry disqualify contestants from entering this contest, though books published in other genres do not.(self-published books are okay.) Translations and collaborative manuscripts are not eligible. Employees, volunteers and board members of BOA Editions, Ltd., or their partners or spouses, or their immediate families, or immediate family of the judge are not eligible. Per the Publishing Contest Ethics, as advanced by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), any person who has studied poetry in a formal program with the Final Judge—through a college, university, community program, residency, or private tutorial, within the last two years—is not eligible to submit a manuscript to this contest. Authors of BOA titles in other genres and translators who have been under contract with BOA are not eligible to submit. No AI-assisted submissions. Manuscript Format: Minimum of 65 pages of poetry (not including Table of Contents, Acknowledgments, etc.), and maximum of 120 pages of poetry. Manuscript text should be at least 12 pt. font. Name address and telephone number must appear on the title or cover page of the manuscript. Do not send loose/unattached artwork or photographs if mailing manuscript in. Artwork is only accepted when integrated into the manuscript itself digitally. Paginated consecutively with a table of contents. Bound with a binder clip (example). Attach publications acknowledgments, if any. Include a stamped, self-addressed postcard for notification of receipt of manuscript. Do not send by FedEx or UPS. Neither late nor early manuscripts will be accepted. Contestants may submit the manuscript elsewhere simultaneously, but must notify BOA Editions immediately if a manuscript is accepted by another publisher. Once submitted, manuscripts cannot be altered. Winner will be given the opportunity to revise before publication. Contestants may submit more than one manuscript, but a separate entry fee and entry form must accompany each manuscript. Manuscripts mailed from foreign countries risk not being received before final selections have been made. Suggested Guidelines: Send manuscript in a plain or padded envelope. Please no boxes. For notification of competition results, include a business-size SASE. Keep a copy of your manuscript, as manuscripts will not be returned. We advise that you send your manuscript by first class or priority mail. Answers to FAQs: The winner will be announced in spring 2026. The winning manuscript will be published in spring 2027 as an original paperback edition in the New Poets of America Series. The winner will retain full copyright of their work. The paper from all manuscripts will be recycled after the winner is announced. BOA Editions assumes no responsibility for loss of manuscripts. The most cost-effective method for mailing your manuscript is to send via USPS media mail. Thank you!

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KFW Writers Prize - Kentucky Foundation For Women

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The KFW Writers Prize application will ask applicants to submit a brief bio and a writing sample. Reviewers and the final judge will see only the writing sample. All samples will be evaluated through an anonymous review process, so applicants should ensure that no identifying information appears in the writing sample itself or in the file name.

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AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature

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AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature

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Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer and trans writing today. It's a space where LGBTQ+ writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.

Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you're working on now that's keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it.
What does that look like? Check out some writing we love from our recent issues:
Guidelines:
Title your submission with the title of the work(s) you are submitting (separated by commas). Include a 50-word or less bio (with pronouns after your name, please!) in your cover letter. (If accepted, we will request an author photo; JPG or PNG files are best.) We accept the following unpublished unsolicited submissions:

3 to 5 poems

up to 7500 words of fiction or nonfiction (up to three flash fiction pieces)

up to 20 pages of cross-genre work, text-image hybrids, or drama

All submissions must be in one DOC or DOCX file.

We accept simultaneous submissions; however, please withdraw your piece immediately if it is accepted elsewhere (or, if you only need to withdraw part of a submission, send us a message in Submittable).

Only send one submission during each reading period.

We do not accept previously published material.

If you've recently appeared in the journal, please wait two reading periods (1 yr) to submit again.

Contributors receive two copies of the issue in which they appear and a $25 honorarium (via PayPal).

Submission periods are:

March 1 to May 1 (Fall Edition)

September 1 to November 1 (Spring Edition)

We are always open for cover art! Reach our production manager, Miah Jeffra, at fabulous@foglifterpress.com. (All other submissions, please use the applicable form below.)

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Foglifter is a biannual compendium of the most dynamic, urgent queer and trans writing today. It's a space where LGBTQ+ writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace.Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work.

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a publication of Rowan University’s Master of Arts in Writing

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Each year, KSPS hosts a poetry conference open to both members and nonmembers, bringing together poets of all levels to learn, share, and connect. The conference features panels, workshops, reading…

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The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

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The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

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The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

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The LCLC is an annual international conference welcoming critical, creative and hybrid work on 20th and 21st century literature, fostering dialogue and community in Louisville since 1973.

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ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Power of a Place, Power of Its People

Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia

March 19 – 21, 2026

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Campus photo courtesy of MU Communications

Logo by Charlie Umhau learn more about it here.

Proposal Deadline
October 14th

SPONSORS

West Virginia University Press
Sponsor of Publishers' Reception

Conference Chair

Cicero M. Fain, III, Ph.D., is a fourth-generation Black Huntingtonian. He received his B. A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his M. Ed. from George Mason University. He is the recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Fellowship from Marshall University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University. His teaching career includes positions at Marshall, Ohio University-Southern, Niagara University, and the College of Southern Maryland. He has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including "Buffalo Soldier, Deserter, Criminal: The Remarkably Complicated Life of Charles Ringo," in the Ohio Valley Journal, which is his current book project. His first book, "Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story," published in 2019 by the University of Illinois Press was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, and in 2021 the West Virginia Library Association awarded it the Literary Merit Award. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming "Black Appalachia: Race, Place, and Identity," the follow-up anthology to 1985's seminal Blacks in Appalachia. He is the Assistant Provost of Access and Opportunities at Marshall University, the Assistant Research Director and Outreach Specialist for the Appalachian Freedom Heritage Initiative, and the Marshall Liaison to the Appalachian Studies Association. He serves on the boards of the West Virginia Humanities Council, the Cabell-Huntington Convention & Visitors Bureau Cabell/Wayne counties, and the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation.

Program Co-Chair

Paul L. Robertson is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Marshall University. Originally from Hardy, Virginia (at the juncture of Roanoke, Bedford, and Franklin counties, in the Virginia Blue Ridge), Dr. Robertson earned master's degrees in Appalachian Studies and English from Appalachian State University, and holds a Ph.D. in Media, Art, and Text from Virginia Commonwealth University. He taught courses in Appalachian literature, Appalachian folklore, and multiethnic literature at VCU for seven years before coming to Marshall in the fall of 2023, as an Appalachian literature specialist. Dr. Robertson has also worked for Southern and Appalachian-related archives at Appalachian State and at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research interests vary widely, from Appalachian balladry to Appalachian-themed comic books, but primarily concerns contemporary representations of Appalachian identity in mass media and literature. He has been published in The North Carolina Folklore Journal and The Journal of Popular Culture. He is currently working on a book, The Mountains at the End of the World: Subcultural Appropriations of Appalachia, 1990-2010. He lives in Huntington with his wife, Simms, and two savage rat terriers (aka: "Appalachian feist-dogs").

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Campus photo courtesy of MU Communications Logo by Charlie Umhau learn more about it here. Proposal Deadline October 14th SPONSORS West Virginia University Press Sponsor of Publishers' Reception Conference Chair Cicero M. Fain, III, Ph.D., is a fourth-generation Black Huntingtonian. He received his B. A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his M.

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Poetry Society of America Awards now open

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Poetry Society of America Awards now open

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The Poetry Society of America presents a number of prestigious awards each year.

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The Louisville Review's Frederick Smock Poetry Prize
Ends on Sat, Nov 1, 2025 11:59 PM

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The Louisville Review's Frederick Smock Poetry Prize

Ends on Sat, Nov 1, 2025 11:59 PM

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The Louisville Review & Fleur-de-Lis Press - The Louisville Review’s Frederick Smock Poetry Prize

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We are thrilled to announce that Kentucky Poet Laureate Emeritus Richard Taylor will serve as distinguished judge for the inaugural Frederick Smock Poetry Prize! This national, first-book poetry prize invites Kentucky affiliated writers living in the United States who have not yet published a full-length book of poetry to submit manuscripts of 48-70 pages. All styles of poetry are welcome in this inclusive contest committed to representing the diversity of writers affiliated with the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Please Note: We broadly recognize a Kentucky affiliated writer as a person currently lives or has lived in Kentucky, or who has an affiliation with the Commonwealth through family, ancestry, education, or employment.
Winner will receive $1,000 and publication through The Louisville Review’s Fleur-de-Lis Press in fall 2026, 25 author copies, and online distribution through Barnes & Nobel and Amazon.
Finalists will receive publication of a selected, previously unpublished poem in The Louisville Review, and we will hold an online reading for the winner and finalists. The reading fee of $25 includes a 1-year print subscription to The Louisville Review. A limited number of few waivers for economically vulnerable writers are available. For assistance email associateeditor@louisvillereview.org
THE LOUISVILLE REVIEW’S FREDERICK SMOCK POETRY PRIZE is a triennial contest that celebrates the life and legacy of Frederick Smock, a Kentucky Poet Laureate. Born in Kentucky and a lifelong resident of the Commonwealth, Frederick Smock published several volumes of poetry with Larkspur Press, Broadstone Books, and others, as well as volumes of literary essays, poetry in translation, and a memoir. A steadfast supporter of the literary arts and of The Louisville Review, he was published in the first issue of the journal in 1978 and continued to contribute to and support the journal, serving as both as an editor and an advisor. Frederick Smock was Founding Editor of The American Voice and was a long-time professor of English at Bellarmine University, Louisville.
FREDERICK SMOCK POETRY PRIZE JUDGE RICHARD TAYLOR is the author of numerous collections of poetry, two historical novels, and several books relating to Kentucky history, including Elkhorn: Evolution of a Kentucky Landmark, which received awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the Thomas C. Clark Medallion. He served as Kentucky Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2001, and has received two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as an Al Smith Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. Educated at the University of Kentucky (with bachelor’s and Ph.D. in English), he also holds a master’s degree (English) and a J.D. from the University of Louisville. During graduate school he taught in high schools across Kentucky with the Poetry-in-the-Schools Program through the Kentucky Arts Council, editing an anthology of student writing called Cloud Bumping. A career educator, he taught Kentucky State University in Frankfort until retiring in 2008. Talyor taught in the Governor’s School for the Arts as well as serving as Director of the Governor’s Scholars Program on two campuses, and he spent a year in Denmark as a scholar-teacher in the Fulbright Program and has taught university courses in Korea as well abroad in England and Ireland as part of a studies-abroad program. Recently retired after fourteen years from Transylvania University as Keenan Visiting Writer, he was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, he is co-owner of Poor Richard’s Books and lives on a small farm outside Frankfort, Kentucky.
FULL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES • A first book contest open to all Kentucky affiliated writers in the U.S. who have not yet published a full-length book of poems. • We broadly recognize a Kentucky affiliated writer as a person currently lives or has lived in Kentucky, or who has an affiliation with the Commonwealth through family, ancestry, education, or employment.
• Accepting submissions through Submittable only from September 1 through November 1, 2025.
• Manuscripts should be 48-70 pages in length, excluding front matter/acknowledgements.
• $25 reading fee includes 1-year subscription to The Louisville Review. A limited number of few waivers for economically vulnerable writers are available. For assistance email associateeditor@louisvillereview.org
• Judge reads all submissions blind.
• Do not put any identifying information or your name on your manuscript. Submittable will add your name to your file.
• List any poems previously published in journals or anthologies on an acknowledgments page at the end of the manuscript. List only the poem’s title followed by the year of publication in parentheses. Do not include the title of the journal or anthology. • Simultaneous submission of manuscripts under consideration by other publishers are eligible. (Please notify us as soon as possible if your manuscript is accepted by another press.) • Have any questions you’d like to ask before submitting? Send us an email at associateeditor@louisvillereview.org.

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An Evening with George Eklund and Sean Corbin - Carnegie Center

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George Eklund and Sean Corbin will read from their work and discuss the Poetry Gauntlet for those interested. October 9 at 6:00 PM

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Carnegie + Accents: Book Hop & Fundraiser - Carnegie Center

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Join the Carnegie Center and Accents Publishing for Book Hop, a fundraising event! Featuring readings by Accents authors.

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By Hill Writers: A Southern Writers' Collective

Join us for a cozy evening of storytelling and poetry with George Ella Lyon & Brandon Sun Eagle Jent at the Hill Writers Collective!

Agenda

6:00 PM - 6:05 PM

Hill Writers Introduction

Samantha Ratcliffe

6:05 PM - 6:25 PM

Brandon Sun Eagle Jent Reading

Brandon Sun Eagle Jent

Brandon Sun Eagle Jent resides in Whitesburg, Kentucky, on the unceded lands of the ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ, S'atsoyaha, and Shawanwaki nations. A lover of words, languages, and stories, he holds a Masters degree in L...
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6:25 PM - 6:55 PM

George Ella Lyon Reading

George Ella Lyon

The following bio comes from Carnegiecenterlex.org George Ella Lyon is a poet, writer, teacher, musician, storyteller and social activist with Appalachian roots and a global reach. She has publis...
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7:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Author Q&A, Short Break, & Generative Write

The audience will have time to ask the authors questions. Then we'll engage in a quick 15 minute generative writing time with author created prompts.

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Optional Open Reading Stage

At the end of our adventure, we'll gather for an optional open reading stage. At this time, we welcome participants who feel moved to read what they've written during out generative write to do so.

About this event

Join us on Saturday, September 13, from 6-8 p.m. for an intimate evening of conversation with acclaimed Kentucky author George Ella Lyon and Appalachian poet Brandon Sun Eagle Jent.The Hill Writers Reading Series is a free literary event dedicated to celebrating regional voices. Following each reading, the authors will host an audience Q&A and guide a generative writing session with prompts they've created. The evening will conclude with an open reading stage. This is an event you won't want to miss!

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Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award

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Red Hen Press - Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award

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Established in 1998, in honor of the poet Benjamin Saltman (1927–1999), this award is for a previously unpublished (including self-published works) original collection of poetry. Awarded collection is selected through an annual competition which is open to all poets. This year’s final judge will be Brenda Cárdenas.
Deadline: October 31, 2025. Award is $3,000 and publication of the awarded manuscript by Red Hen Press. Entry fee is $25.00. 48 page minimum, 96 page maximum. (sized on 8.5″x11″ sheet, 1″ margin, 12 pt. Times New Roman) The award is open to all writers with the following exceptions: 1. Authors who have had a full-length work published by Red Hen Press, or a full-length work currently under consideration by Red Hen Press; 2. Employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press; 3. Relatives of employees or members of the executive board of directors; 4. Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.
Procedures and Ethical Considerations
To be certain that every manuscript finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all manuscripts shall be submitted to the judges without any identifying material. Bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material shall be removed from judged manuscripts until the conclusion of the competition. Please remove all names, bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material from the submitted manuscript, and include only your name and contact information in the cover letter field of Submittable. Red Hen Press is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of our awards. Judges shall recuse themselves from considering any manuscript where they recognize the work. In the event of recusal, a manuscript score previously assigned by the managing editor of the press will be substituted.
In order to qualify, authors must agree not only to on-time delivery of manuscript, clear and timely responses to communication, and attention to detail, but also to full participation in the promotion of their book—in short, publicity. A robust and personalized book promotion campaign requires a committed partnership between the author and RHP. To this end, authors will be expected to engage in the following: 1. Appearing as podcast guest
2. Running social media
3. Building and maintaining an author website
4. Curating a broad contact list for personal outreach
5. Building and maintaining a Substack
6. Doing long-read pitches
7. Potential events with friends
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Application Deadline: August 24, 2025 Grant Period: October 1, 2025 - September 1, 2026 Once you've read the guidelines below, click HERE to apply

The Kentucky Arts Council strongly encourages you to read and understand the grant guidelines before accessing the application.

About the Program

As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 2026, the commonwealth is exploring the people, places, and events that created our shared history over the past 250 years. As a legacy of this semiquincentennial, artists, organizations, and communities are invited to commemorate this anniversary and interpret its themes through the arts.

Core Values of the Kentucky Arts Council

The Kentucky Arts Council strongly encourages you to read and understand the guidelines below before beginning the GO Smart application. Like all programs of the arts council, America250KY is guided by the agency's core values. Successful applications will embody these core values, and all applicants are strongly encouraged to read and reflect upon them before submitting an application.

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Submission Guidelines
Appalachia welcomes narrative, historical, and science essays on the following topics: mountain, wilderness, and backcountry adventure; technical climbing; canoeing and kayaking; nature and climate change; and land ethics. We work far ahead and publish twice a year. We consider it our mission to encourage and work with new writers, as well as seasoned ones. The editor-in-chief solicits most lead feature stories several months ahead.

Deadlines
Story proposals should reach the editor-in-chief eight months ahead of publication: April 1 for December publication, October 1 for June publication. Manuscripts sent on speculation may arrive as late as seven months ahead of publication: May 1 for December publication, November 1 for June publication. Letters to the editor, suggestions for obituaries in our "In Memoriam" section, and short items for our "News and Notes" section may arrive five months ahead: July 1 for December publication, January 1 for June publication.

Format
Our philosophy is that articles should be as long as needed. Most articles run between 1,000 and 3,000 words. Some measure as short at 500 words, and our longest are 5,000. Please double-space your document, use Times New Roman 12-point font, and send submissions electronically, if possible.

Artwork
Photographs or drawings accompany most of our articles and are usually provided by the authors. We also publish a limited number of standalone photos that evoke the mountains, and we welcome high-quality freelance submissions.

Poetry
Original poems about the above topics are also welcome. Shorter poems are preferred. Only eight poems are published per issue, which makes this the most competitive section of the journal; on average, one in 50 submissions is accepted. Send poems to the attention of Parkman Howe via the editor-in-chief.

Editing
All work is subject to editing. We make every effort to work cooperatively with authors in the early stages of production and to explain editing decisions. Deadlines usually make last-minute communication with authors impossible.

Submissions
E-mail story ideas, speculative material, and poems to Christine Woodside, editor-in-chief, at christine.woodside@gmail.com. You can also send her postal mail c/o the Appalachian Mountain Club, 10 City Square, Boston, MA 02129. Mailed material can be returned upon request if you include a postage-paid envelope.

Payment
We have a very limited budget and cannot pay for most unsolicited material. Authors receive two contributor copies.

Online
Authors retain the rights to their work, although Appalachia reserves the right to publish stories or excerpts online indefinitely.

About Appalachia's Editor
Christine Woodside, a writer and editor based in the lower Connecticut River Valley, has served as editor-in-chief of Appalachia since 2006. She writes about backcountry adventure, environmental change and how people cope with it, and American history. Chris welcomes letters and feedback from readers, and can be reached at christine.woodside@gmail.com. Learn more about Chris at chriswoodside.com.

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Submission Guidelines Appalachia welcomes narrative, historical, and science essays on the following topics: mountain, wilderness, and backcountry adventure; technical climbing; canoeing and kayaking; nature and climate change; and land ethics. We work far ahead and publish twice a year. We consider it our mission to encourage and work with new writers, as well as seasoned ones.

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New San Francisco-based journal, Antiphony (free)

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citizen trans* {project}: trans* voices in trump america (Free submissions/trans writers)

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Surf Rock Poetry Prize (Free, deadline Sept 30th) Interesting Challenge!

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Surf Rock Poetry Prize (Free, deadline Sept 30th) Interesting Challenge!

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Lucky Jefferson Poetry & Prose Contest ($100 winner, no entry fee)

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The Opportunity
Lucky Jefferson is excited to announce its 3rd Poetry and Prose contest!
Why are we doing this? We believe writers deserve opportunities like this (and so much more) and one core part of our mission includes being the difference. Many contests charge fees to enter or make writers and artists jump through hoops with no real return. We want to change that.
Let's break things down:
* For starters, it's free to enter or submit.

* You'll have 2 months to submit any original and unpublished poetry and prose you want.

* Up to 20 finalists will receive publication in Lucky Jefferson's digital 365 Collection.

* Two of those finalists (one poetry and one prose) will each receive $100, publication, and a swag pack.

Meet Ahmad Almallah, this year's judge.

Ahmad Almallah grew up in Palestine and currently lives in Philadelphia. His newest poetry collection, Wrong Winds, is out with Fonograf Editions (2025). His other collections include Border Wisdom (Winter Editions 2023) and Bitter English (Chicago 2019). He is currently artist in residence in English and Creative Writing at UPenn.

Artwork designed by Dana Ross.

How to Submit

No Frills Submission Guide

* Anyone, over the age of 10 is welcome to submit.

* Send your five best poems or prose pieces (per submission).

* Poems should be < 14 lines. Prose should be < 1500 words.

* You will be asked to share your name, email address, current mailing address, and a short bio (third-person, 50 words max) in the submission form.

* Only original and previously unpublished work. And please no soulless ai-generated pieces. Head here for even more details.

Everyone Wins..Kinda

Selected Poetry Winner: will receive $100, an LJ swag box, publication in The 365 Collection (digital), and eligibility for social media press.

Selected Prose Winner: will receive $100, an LJ swag box, publication in The 365 Collection (digital), and eligibility for social media press.

Top 20 Finalists: will receive publication in The 365 Collection (digital), and eligibility for social media press.

While we plan to publish up to 20 writers in this contest, we reserve the right to publish more than the number listed.

Your Rights

We ask for exclusive first worldwide print and electronic rights for up to three months from the date of publication and non-exclusive rights to include published works in our archive indefinitely.

Basically, we'd like to be the first to publish your submission and after three months, you're free to redistribute it how you'd like. Nevertheless, it'll be a part of our collection forever.

If your work is forthcoming in a manuscript, or published somewhere else (online or print) after publication in Lucky Jefferson, you agree to give credit to your family at Lucky Jefferson.

Representation Matters

Lucky Jefferson is a women and people-of-color-led organization and welcomes all to share their words with us.

Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and historically underrepresented writers are encouraged to submit as we continue to prioritize these communities in our ongoing work.

Avoid This

We will not tolerate any work that promotes harmful stereotypes and perspectives including: racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, ableism.
We also kindly request that yourefrain from sending us any sexually explicit pieces, or works highlighting extreme violence.

Submissions Open: May 25, 2025 - August 17, 2025 @ 11:59 PM CT

Finalists Announced: TBD

Winners Announced: TBD
2024 Winners and Finalists 2023 Winners and Finalists
For questions and additional info, visit our FAQ page.

Let's publish social change together.

Copyright © 2025. Lucky Jefferson is a 501 (c)(3) creative arts publisher.

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The Time Is Now - Weekly writing prompts for poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

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Over 1800 weekly writing prompts. Poetry prompts, fiction prompts, for poets, fiction, and creative nonfiction writers.

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Episode 1, Kentucky Writer's Notebook (Kathleen Driskell)

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A creative challenge for anybody, not just writers! @AU_gust on Twitter. Find us at ‘#au gust 2025’ and ‘#au gust’!

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Silas House discusses All These Ghosts with Kathleen Driskell Thursday, September 11 · 6 - 8pm (Carmichael's Bookstore)

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About the Book: A timely and poignant poetry collection by acclaimed author and former Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House, including the poem read at Governor Andy Beshear's 2023 inauguration and an interview by Barbara Kingsolver.
Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters--a novelist, music journalist, environmental activist, columnist, and the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky. His first full-length collection of poetry blends his Appalachian upbringing with his ongoing relation to the natural world. Poems of praise for community and the collective appear alongside others tinged with nostalgia and grief when House keenly observes the loss of rural America as he once knew it. Returning to his touchstone subjects, Silas recalls wild places, echoes stories from a lingering and living past, and explores an abiding connection to family, friends, and fellow artists.
About the Authors:
Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, a book of creative nonfiction, and four plays. His first picture book will be published in 2025. His latest novel, Lark Ascending, was a USA Today and indie bestseller, a Booklist Editor's Choice, and is winner of the Southern Book Prize and the Nautilus Award. In 2025 he releases two books: All These Ghosts, a poetry collection, and Dead Man Blues, a mystery under the pseudonym of S.D. House. He served as the Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2023-2025.

House was a 2024 finalist for the Grammy Award for writing and producing the music video for Tyler Childers' "In Your Love", and is the winner of an EB White Honor Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, two Nautilus Awards, and many other honors, including an invitation to read at the Library of Congress and being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and shortlisted for the Willie Morris Award. In 2022 he was given the Duggins Prize, the largest award in the nation for an LGBTQ writer. In 2024 he served as a fiction judge for the National Book Awards.

House serves on the fiction faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing and as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Berea College. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is the recipient of four honorary doctorates. House is a native of Southeastern Kentucky and currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell has authored of six poetry collections, most recently Goat-Footed Gods (Carnegie Mellon UP). Other collections include Blue Etiquette: Poems, a finalist for the Weatherford Award; Next Door to the Dead, winner of the Judy Gaines Young Book Award; and Seed Across Snow, a Poetry Foundation national bestseller. Her individual poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, , River Teeth, Appalachian Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah and other magazines; and her work has been featured in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and American Life in Poetry. From 2019-22, she served as chair of the board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the professional organization of creative writers and creative writing programs with around 75,000 members. She is professor of creative writing and Chair of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University in Louisville, where she lives with her husband in an old country church built before the American Civil War. On April 24, 2025, Governor Andy Beshear appointed Kathleen as the 2025-26 Kentucky Poet Laureate.

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Discover the FISH List – Finest Independent Story Houses – the ultimate ranking of the world’s liveliest indie literary magazines, curated by author and editor Charlie Fish. These are the passion projects; the kaleidoscopic cutting edge.

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FIVES: A Companion to Denver Quarterly (Free rolling submissions for multimedia, hybrid, strange work)

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Josephine Quarterly accepting art & poetry (no fee)

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We only consider 200 submissions a month, so we ask that you follow our guidelines for one submission at a time to allow others to submit their work. Submit up to five poems of any length in one file as a .doc, .docx, .rtf, and .pdf file.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome as long as the editors are immediately notified if your work is accepted elsewhere. If a poem has been accepted elsewhere and it is still under consideration with us, please add a note within your submission via Submittable.

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Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Chapbook contest (Ends October 15th)

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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS Fiction and Nonfiction
Finishing Line Editions, an imprint of Finishing Line Press, is now accepting manuscripts of Fiction and Nonfiction.
Finishing Line Editions has a clear commitment to consistently publish a small number of novels and nonfiction works each year of exceptional writing. Finishing Line Editions are printed, perfect-bound paper editions.

Major distribution.

Pay is a standard royalty contract.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
We are looking for Book Manuscripts of Fiction or Nonfiction:

Personal Narrative/Memoir

Historical Fiction

Realistic Fiction

Science Fiction

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, or Fables

Literary or Narrative Nonfiction

Narrative Procedure (How-To/Craft)

Short Story Collection
We accept material from either agent or author. Please include a one-page synopsis in addition to the manuscript.
Please send a complete manuscript.

We accept only unpublished work.

Include pictures or illustrations only if you are the copyright owner to that work.

Manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced. We prefer Times New Roman font, size 12.

Please do not submit material by mail, fax, flash drive or on a computer disk. Finishing Line Editions only accepts submissions via our online submissions manager. All submissions must be made electronically via our online submissions manager: https://finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit

Please include your name and address, telephone number, and email address on the title page of your manuscript, and in your cover letter.

Please list any previously published work in a short author bio.

We will consider work that has been submitted simultaneously to other publishers. Please withdraw the work immediately upon acceptance by another publisher.

Finishing Line Editions will respond to a submission only if we are interested in the work. Please refrain from calling, faxing, or emailing to inquire about the status of an unsolicited submission, as we will be unable to assist you. Please allow six months for a response. We will post a response using our submission manager for rejections. We will email and call, if we select your work for publication.

In order to help support our staff of readers, we do require a small reading fee of $10 for submissions.

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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning, small press publisherFinishing Line Press is the home of the New Women's Voices Chapbook Series, the New Women's Voices Prize in Poetry, the Finishing Line Press Prize in Poetry, The Donna Wolf-Palacio Poetry Prize (formerly the Starting Gate Award), and the PADDOCK REVIEW.

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Thanks so much for your interest in submitting your work to The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide! The G&LR accepts unsolicited manuscripts and proposals on all LGBT-related topics. Especially sought are proposals on the following themes for issues in development:

Proposed Themes of Forthcoming Issues

1. Forgotten History: From a Civil War bromance to a lesbian prison riot

2. The Kink Issue: Alternative sexualities

3. Ethnographic Journeys: LGBT lives in premodern cultures

4. Suggestions welcomed

Please e-mail your proposal to: richard.schneider@GLReview.org. Below are the guidelines for submission, as well as some tips to help you decide whether to submit your work and how to frame it for publication.

READERSHIP.The magazine is targeted to "literate non-specialists," i.e. well-educated readers who span a wide range of professions and interests. A high level of intellectual sophistication can be assumed; however, specialized jargon or highly academic language should be avoided. Lively, thought-provoking, and readable are some watchwords for articles that we publish.

GENRES. The G&LR publishes nonfiction and poetry-but not short fiction, personal memoirs, or journals.

Feature Articles. Full-length essays, most organized around an issue "theme," make up around 60% of each issue. (Word range of 2,000 to 4,000, with a "golden mean" of 2,500.)

Reviews make up most of the balance. The majority are reviews of books, with a few on the arts (film, theater, visual arts, etc.) in each issue. (600 to 1,200 words. A few "Briefs" of 250 words also appear.)

Interviews with prominent GLBT artists and activists occasionally run as feature articles. Use Q&A format rather than a journalistic write-up.

Artist's Profile. Recurring column spotlights a prominent or rising artist, writer, choreographer, etc. Usually includes a short interview with a brief introduction to the artist's work. (1,000 to 1,500 words.)

Art Memo. Column allows for a personal reflection on a single work or artist/writer who made a difference in the writer's life. (1,000 to 1,500 words.)

International Spectrum. Column highlights the state of GLBT rights or culture in a city or region outside the U.S. (1,000 to 1,500 words.)

Correspondence. Letters to the editor.

Guest Opinion. Op-ed pieces take an advocacy position on a current issue. (500 to 1,000 words.)

SUBMISSIONS. Both proposals and completed pieces are eligible. Proposals are encouraged when the writer is uncertain of suitability. The G&LR does not accept published pieces, but does, on occasion, publish a chapter or excerpt from a forthcoming book.

For feature articles, please check on the "themes" of upcoming issues, as announced in the Cultural Calendar of each issue. Papers that were originally intended for a different venue typically need to be adapted to G&LR style.

For book reviews, writers are encouraged to request the current list of "targeted books" for guidance. Proposals for reviews of books that are not on this list are welcome.

The G&LR is not a scholarly journal, and articles are not footnoted. However, a short list of references can be included at the end of a piece.

The magazine follows standard style conventions (à la Strunk or Chicago) and U.S. spelling conventions.

Note: Writers who have not previously been published in The G&LR are encouraged to send a writing sample (or link to same on the Internet).
SUBMISSION PROCESS

Submission via e-mail is strongly encouraged, though hard copy submissions are accepted (but please notify the editor by electronic means if possible).

E-mail your submission or proposal with a cover letter to richard.schneider@glreview.org. Most any format is acceptable (MS Word, RTF, etc.).

For hard copy, use the PO box below. Only one copy is required. No SASE (stamped, self-addressed envelope) is needed unless you want your manuscript returned.

The G&LR is a carefully edited magazine, and few unsolicited pieces are accepted exactly as submitted. Writers may be asked to revise or even rewrite portions of a piece.

BOOK REVIEWS. Assignments for book reviews are made by the editors. The G&LR does not accept unsolicited reviews. Writers are strongly discouraged from reviewing works by friends or associates.

A note on style: A book (or other) review usually begins with a general overview of the topic at hand or perhaps the writer's previous works (esp. for a novel), followed by a discussion of how or where the book under review fits into this context and what it hopes to accomplish. Only then is it generally advisable to render a judgment on the book's merits. How successful was the writer in achieving his or her stated or implicit goals? What did we learn that we didn't know before?

Books for review consideration should be mailed to the Boston POB address below.

POETRY. A few poems are published in each issue. While there is no hard-and-fast limit on length, poems of over 50 lines become hard to accommodate. Please submit no more than three poems at a time. Send your work in hard copy to our PO box and include an SASE for notification purposes. Poems can be emailed (in a Word doc.) to stephen.hemrick@glreview.org, and please include your physical mailing address.

BLOG. The magazine's website at www.GLReview.org features a blog with original material in a range of genres: short essays, op-ed pieces, movie reviews, and even some personal writings. Length should generally be fewer than 1,000 words. Please submit your piece or proposal to our web editor at: allison.armijo@glreview.org.

PAYMENT. Contributors of original feature articles receive a flat fee of $250, and contributors of full-length book or movie reviews and art memos payment of $100. All writers receive a complimentary subscription, plus a few copies of the issue in which their article appears, and are encouraged to give up to four gift subscriptions to parties of their choice.
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How to Recognize God's Chosen
Jeremy Paden

how to recognize god's chosen is a collection of poetic fragments that make up a long poem loosely structured like a gospel account. The principal character of the lyrical narrative is referred to with the non-gendered pronouns zhe/hir, or at times as god's chosen or at others as the beloved. Pulling from a variety of religious and sacred texts-the Prophets, the Gospels, the Desert Fathers, Medieval mystics, the Upanishads, Sufi poets, and others-and the scholarly, textual debates surrounding manuscript culture, how to recognize god's chosen imagines a search for the divine set our contemporary moment of refugee crises, climate catastrophe, political populism, and the various forms of violence that make up life in the 21 st century.

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Swan Songs
B. Elizabeth Beck

Swan Songs is the debut short story collection by poet and novelist B. Elizabeth Beck. In this book we meet thirteen women and witness thirteen lives at the backdrop of thirteen types of music.

"The house of fiction that B. Elizabeth Beck constructs in Swan Songs is inhabited by people we recognize-a woman fretting about the onset of menopause, an art history graduate working in a diner and trying to hide her identity, a fastidious suburban mom celebrating Christmas in July, a middle-aged wife playing and living out the soundtrack of her life, an abused wife who hopes her husband will 'wind down like a toy with low batteries.' They are none of us, they are all of us. These thirteen stories-many of them more like capsules of memory or character studies-are masterful, treated with minutely imagined details and a deftness that resonates with authenticity and insight, woven with music as only Beck can do."-Richard Taylor

ISBN: 978-1-961127-16-6
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Strung Out Along the Endless Branch
Wesley Houp

Strung Out Along the Endless Branch was selected by Greg Pape as the winner of the inaugural James Baker Hall Book Award. Accents Publishing is proud to present this debut collection by a brilliant poet, philosopher and observer of both human nature and the natural world.

"Wesley Houp has a way of sketching a scene or telling a tale so that the imagined backstory, what isn't said but lurks just outside the poem's words, carries the emotion and meaning and keeps resonating. Emily Dickinson said, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant-". The poems in this book seem to follow that advice. It is a book of poems with its own charmed, often fabulous (in the sense of fable-like) way of evoking and presenting contemporary realities and absurdities, garbled politics, drugs, dangers and divisions of all sorts, but also, the rich particulars, characters, and daily wonders of this world."-Greg Pape

ISBN: 978-1-961127-14-2
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Plant Daddy
Renée Rigdon

Vulnerability, strength and introspection interlink in the singular voice of Renée Rigdon's debut poetry collection, Plant Daddy, and the poems in it sing of growth through a journey of acceptance and change.

"Rigdon's Plant Daddy, like the flora it venerates, is alive in generative possibilities. Each poem creates new worlds in strange and small places-places that break us, that make us whole, that bring us together until our roots intertwine. You will relish this collection and its love for sounds, for color, for life, for memory and love evoked and turned into a natural resistance, no need for chemicals."-Willie Carver

ISBN: 978-1-961127-13-5
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Labor: The Testimony of Ted Gall
Cecilia Woloch

An extended poem in linked sections, in the voice of coal miner and activist Ted Gall, LABOR weaves one man's personal history into the history of work and justice in America.

"In Labor, Woloch pulls a voice from the archives-that of Ted Gall, a miner and union organizer in Western Pennsylvania during the first half of the twentieth century. This poem, composed almost entirely in words written by Gall himself, gives a first-hand account of what it was like in the mines, in the unions, and in the spirits of the working poor, 'lifting their voices like trumpets' to sound what is somehow both historical and timely. This is an important contribution to Appalachian docupoetics and cross-racial labor solidarity. Woloch is a rescuer of language, a poet who knows where to dig up truths."-Joy Priest

ISBN: 978-1-961127-12-8
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Tainted
Wendy Jett

From the author of Girl comes the next instalment of the multigenre story of a girl growing up in difficult circumstances. Friendships, family relationships, domestic violence, health challenges come into focus in this beautiful, hopeful, heartbreaking, relatable book.

"Tainted picks up where Wendy Jett's first book, Girl, left off, wrestling cosmic questions posed by the family, creatures, and spirits accompanying Girl's journey. Tragic and tender, magical as God and real as beans and cornbread, Tainted is a triumph and true to the bone. If you liked Girl, you'll absolutely love Tainted."-Mike Wilson, author of Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, political poetry for a post-truth world

ISBN: 978-1-961127-07-4
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Udder Uproar
Cathy Perkins

Udder Uproar is Cathy Perkins's debut collection of humorous poems. Courageous, bawdy at times, but always unapologetic, the poems in this book surprise and entertain the reader with their mixture of frankness and vulnerability.

"These poems are big, and funny. They display a mind alert to the vibrance and wit of words, to our fascination with the untalked-about, and to the pathos as well as the humor in living. You will laugh ruefully, for sure, but you'll also relish this celebration of our human resilience and ways we move exuberantly through the world, owning our frailties bravely and even joyfully."-Libby Falk Jones

ISBN: 978-1-961127-05-0
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Love House
Frank X Walker

If you liked Frank X Walker's first poetry collection, Affrilachia, you will love Love House -a book highlighting family life with its joys and challenges, with special attention to social justice placed in historical context.

"In Love House, Frank X Walker not only brings the collective past back to us in living color, but these poems delve into the sacred personal, the psychohistory of what it means to be father, son, husband, brother, Black. Up close and personal, he writes poems that are on a pendulum, bringing us through the intersection of what is deeply personal in the intimate glances of the depths of our insides; what we find in birdsong and the garden, the devastation of a flood and erosion, then back to the passing of his closest loved ones, what it means to age, violence and the abuse of power, what it means to be human."-Crystal Wilkinson

ISBN: 978-1-961127-03-6
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Killer Poems
Andrew Merton

Killer Poems is the fourth poetry collection by New Hampshire poet Andrew Merton. His signature humor and wit, as well as his penchant for the absurd are brought to a new level in these irreverent poems of intrigue and depth.

"In Andrew Merton's view of poetry, brevity is the soul of wisdom. His poems are compact. He likes plenty of white space around some image or pithy utterance ... Merton is like some elderly neighbor, someone we pass on the street for years without a second look, someone who-when we finally exchange a few sentences-seems to be thinking and worrying about many of the same things we have, someone we would like to spend more time with from now on."-Charles Simic

ISBN: 978-1-961127-00-5
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Black Girl at the Intersection
LeTonia Jones

Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you LeTonia Jones's brilliant debut. The poems in Black Girl at the Intersection speak from the intersection of social justice and personal heartbreak. Past, present and possible future interact and dare to hope for a better world.

"LeTonia Jones's Black Girl at the Intersection is at once heartbreaking, haunting, and uplifting. The people in her elegantly wrought poems are wounded, lost, and some are gone, but Jones deftly makes us feel how they mattered, and still matter, how they were loved, and how the essence they shared shimmers on in the triumphs of those still here. It's remarkable, a deeply moving debut."-Toni Ann Johnson, Winner of the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award for Light Skin Gone to Waste

ISBN: 978-1-936628-98-8
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Cheeseburgers
Dean Crawford

Packed with humor and memorable characters, Cheeseburgers, the fiction debut of Kentucky-based writer Dean Crawford, is a delightful love story set in the American Wild West.

"Forget your troubles, settle back in your Tom Robbins La-Z-Boy for a delightful tramp through the little Kansas cowpoke town of 'You're Now Here.' I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon than with Calvin Cheeseburgers, Katie McGhee, (the villain) Ike Drogue, and the other characters who inhabit the town, including two ghosts-on-call-when-needed."-Jim Lally, author of Stick Tight Man

ISBN: 978-1-936628-97-1
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Snow Falling on Water
Richard Taylor

Accents Publishing is honored to bring to you the latest poetry book by beloved Kentucky poet, writer and teacher Richard Taylor. In this new and selected collection, we can read poems spanning nearly five decades and hear the strong and memorable voice of the author.

" Snow Falling on Water is an excellent introduction to Richard Taylor's poems. He writes with deep acumen and great humility about the mysteries of the world, both outer and inner, past and present. A recurrent image in his poems is that of new fallen snow which is then tracked across, leaving us with footprints, an image which becomes a blank page the writer fills with words. Taylor's tracks, his words, are a great blessing and lead us to the possibility of a previously unimagined communion with the world."-Michael Moran

ISBN: 978-1-936628-95-7
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Places of Permanent Shade
J. Kates

"In Places of Permanent Shade, J. Kates tackles the big themes along with some smaller ones, but whether he is writing about chopping wood or the end of the world, he brings to his poetry a restless intelligence, subtle humour and a keen sense of observation, both of the inner and the outer life. His tone and use of imagery are remarkable and varied, the voice both colloquial and elegant. And often, lurking just around the corner, is a sharp wit that will jump out and bite you on the arse before you know it."-Peter Robinson, author of Not Dark Yet

ISBN: 978-1-936628-92-6
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A Hollow Muscular Organ
Meg Files

In this psychologically complex and linguistically sophisticated love story, A Hollow Muscular Organ by Meg Files immerses the reader in the process of dissolution of a long and loving marriage.

" A Hollow Muscular Organ combines the intimacy of a two-person play with the insight of a wry all-seeing observer. The alchemy that results is magical. Meg Files's remarkable gifts-she has published both fiction and poetry in a long and distinguished career-are in full bloom here. She renders a lively, headlong story of marital infidelity and its aftermath so fully and deeply that we come to know her characters as we know our life-long friends."-Ann Harleman, author of Tell me, Signora, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award

ISBN: 978-1-936628-88-9
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Under the Seal
Carol Mauriello

Under the Seal by Carol Mauriello is Accents Publishing's first literary murder mystery.

"A mysterious murder in a small Kentucky river town sparks the unfolding of Carol Mauriello's Under the Seal. Mauriello crafts a series of small stories that magnify the whole: a police detective, searching for enough evidence to arrest and convict lonely Patsy Ann Singleton's killer. Patsy Ann's past associations with Mazewood men outside her marriage suggest notable entanglements. An evasive husband pleads innocent to deadly vindictiveness. A dedicated investigator strives for solid evidence to the contrary, suspense mounts, and the reader will feel compelled to follow the quest beyond a shadow of doubt."-Joe Sartor, Associate Professor Emeritus, Art

ISBN: 978-1-936628-85-8
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It's Not Easy Being a Moth
Mark Lee Webb

Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you the first full-length poetry collection by Mark Lee Webb. It's Not Easy Being a Moth contains poems sometimes whimsical, sometimes abstract poignant or wise, but always masterfully written.

"Mark Lee Webb's It's Not Easy Being a Moth is a vivid journey through memory and transformative times, and it is voiced with a steadiness and an honesty that allow the poems' earned discoveries to further reverberate. This collection examines the intersections between youth and grief, between consciousness and intimacy, between perspective and instinct, all the while taking the care required to find the language that can simultaneously delight and haunt."-Marcus Jackson

ISBN: 978-1-936628-73-5
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Lock Her Up
Tina Parker

In Lock Her Up, Tina Parker gives voice to the women from the not too distant past who were not allowed to make decisions about their own bodies and mental health. In this thought-provoking collection, Parker brings to life three characters and highlights their stories through poems and research. We grow in care and concern about Mattie M. Roberts, Rachel Wells and Emma Darby and are able to relate to their struggles and circumstances. Lock Her Up is a deeply moving book and Accents Publishing is proud to bring it to you.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-65-0
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Sirens and Rain
Barry George

Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you the latest collection by haiku master Barry George. More than 100 brilliant haiku, organized in five seasons, take us on a moment-by-moment journey through life in the big city. We feel lucky to be able to see through the eyes of such a sensitive poet.

"Barry George's nuanced juxtapositions of events in the natural world with those of various human activities evoke a range of vivid sensations and emotions. This book confirms that George is among the best of haiku poets."-George Swede

ISBN: 978-1-936628-62-9
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The Compost Reader
Karen Schubert

"In her first full-length collection, Karen Schubert works 'Elbows deep in compost,' sifting through that which accumulates with the passage of time, the fecund and dangerous accumulations of a life: memory, regret, joy, and loss. Schubert's fertile reflections by turns witness, correct, and renew the past, her patient gaze transforming both observer and observed. This collection runs through the events of a life like the Ohio River runs through Schubert's native terrain, and like that river 'it will arrive / with more than when it started.'"-Kimberly Johnson

ISBN: 978-1-936628-60-5
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Literary Accents, vol. 1 issue 3
Accents Publishing

If you're not already a subscriber, you can now order Volume 1, Issue 2 of Literary Accents. This issue brings you poems about family and family relationships. Please also consider buying a print or digital-only subscription to the magazine.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-58-2
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And Luckier
Leatha Kendrick

"Kendrick's powerful fifth collection springs from a mature poet's reckoning: with the family she was given and the family she has made, with the struggle to answer her calling as an artist, with the dangers and diminishments of age, and with her privileged place in a suffering world. And Luckier opens with a dispassionate question: "who might it serve that you / would grow downhearted?" The poems that follow take us through many voices, subjects, and perspectives, bringing us at last to this hard-won counsel: "So much suffering. We cannot uncause it / But we can set ourselves to mend, / ... I will pick up the rubble. / I will carry one stone at a time."-George Ella Lyon

ISBN: 978-1-936628-56-8
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Earth Is My Church
Eric Scott Sutherland

Earth Is My Church is the second Eric Sutherland book published by Accents. While in Pendulum, he focused on people and their life stories, here the author immerses the reader in the natural world. These are poems of connection and significance, vision and enlightenment.
" Earth Is My Church is a lament for 'the beauty / and balance ... before / bulldozers came to scrape / the treasure chest clean' and hope that 'another generation will be able / to sit under old growth / and sing songs by fire light.'"-Joe Survant

ISBN: 978-1-936628-54-4
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Available Light
Audrey Rooney

In her second collection of poetry, Audrey Rooney explores the joys of the present moment from the perspective and experiences of a well-lived life. We can all learn from the wisdom, generosity of spirit, as well as the language precision of these poems.
"Audrey Rooney's Available Light is in love with the world of texture and light. It holds up the ordinary miracles of brown eggs under cool running water. Enter her world and you'll come out the other side more observant and alive. You can almost feels the rain in the trees."-Pat Owen

ISBN: 978-1-936628-52-0
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Painted Daydreams
B. Elizabeth Beck

Painted Daydreams is a multi-media experience: While evoking canonic images from artistic icons and iconoclasts alike, from Rothko to O'Keeffe to Basquiat, these ekphrastic poems also allow a reader to eavesdrop on intimate conversations between Beck and these artists who inspire her-the whispers in Van Gogh's one good, remaining ear backed by psychedelic riffs from Phish and the Grateful Dead. All the while, Beck's life in Kentucky-the collection's vivid underpainting-peers through, ensuring that though these poems may well have sprung from the staid environs of art museums, they breathe and sweat in the vivid, living world.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-50-6
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Last Will, Last Testament
Frank X Walker

"In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he's committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father's last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, his most complex elixir to date, best imbibed with no chaser."-Bianca Lynne Spriggs

ISBN: 978-1-936628-49-0
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Final Exam
Andrew Merton

"The poems in Andrew Merton's Final Exam stake out an imaginative territory that's equitably shared by God, Elmer Fudd, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, tubas, pianos and a menagerie of animals. Merton's work is as spare and lethal as grenades, blowing up easy assumptions in favor of something much more incendiary-a truth-telling that's located in the ambiguous, shape-shifting that is this moment's reality."-Sarah Freligh

"Something in the tone of this book reminds me of Szymborska and her gift for turning human delusion and bad behavior into a life that can be forgiven because it's simply human."-David Rivard;

ISBN: 978-1-936628-48-3
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& Grace
Christopher McCurry, Ed.

& Grace is a 218-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. "The voices in & Grace are voices of seekers. Sometimes these seekers find answers, other times they stumble upon more questions. Unquestionably, though, these poets find poems-urgent, wise, alive with spirit. And grace. This is my favorite Lexington Poetry Anthology so far."-Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

ISBN: 978-1-936628-42-1
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The Occupation
Jay McCoy

"These are brave and hard-won poems, full of poignant witness and startling affirmation in the face of life's most heartbreaking challenges. Jay McCoy is a keen craftsman, constructing lyrics that whisper and sting and celebrate at once. Here is a poet who truly understands the full expressive potential of his forms, and who mines those forms to maximum effect. But be warned: this is not the typical bland stuff of mild-mannered chapbooks. McCoy's delicately crafted but harrowing poems will make your hair stand on end."-Young Smith

ISBN: 978-1-936628-39-1
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Lost and Found
Andrew Merton

"Andrew Merton has masterfully condensed his life into potent, brilliantly composed, minimalist snapshots. Chronologically arranged, delicately layered, and driven by savage honesty and subtle tenderness, Lost and Found is an intense injection of love, loss, loneliness, and above all, the unrelenting question of one's existence. I'll slot this on my shelf next to Raymond Carver."-Jessica Bell

"Almost every one of his poems has a surprise waiting for the reader, either some astonishing figure of speech or a witty observation we are not likely to forget anytime soon."-Charles Simic

ISBN: 978-1-936628-40-7
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Grief & Other Animals
Patty Paine

"Patty Paine's superb new collection arises from the nearly unbearable-a mother's death, but most especially the senseless death of a husband. And, as the crucial elegiac poets know, grieving never truly arrives in 'stages,' and never ends in 'closure.' It is a process infinitely more intricate and nuanced than the platitudes suggest, and it ends, at best, in only a fraught and vexed consolation, what one of her poems calls, 'a sorrow deeper than solace.' Yet even a vexed consolation can be a form of quiet triumph, and these poems-spare, heartbroken, and always utterly precise-arrive repeatedly at such a triumph. Patty Paine has written a book of bravery and consummate artistry."-David Wojahn

ISBN: 978-1-936628-37-7
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How I Became an Angry Woman
Bianca Bargo

"In How I Became an Angry Woman, Bianca Bargo autopsies a doomed love in razor-edged imagery 'boiling with lava and venom.' Here we have a man who has 'eaten girls' hearts like valentine candy' and a woman who has 'too many nightmares / of your old lover; / her Fingers, dirty / with knowing you first.' These are volcanic poems that ultimately understand how love-like the truth-is rarely pure and never simple."-Sarah Freligh

ISBN: 978-1-936628-34-6
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Black Achilles
Curtis L. Crisler

"Such a small wound, such a huge nuisance, death. In Black Achilles, Curtis L. Crisler takes the very human suffering of a torn tendon and uses it to explore our love affair with convenience, our ever-growing cloak of invulnerability, our pining for youth, immortality-how we unhinge at its loss. It is b-ball and score, the opposite of frustration/fragility ... weakness. It is crutches and numbness, swagger and 'what tender means.' All this with a deft rim shot, a language of swerves and dunks, rebounds and alley-oops."-Leslie Anne Mcilroy, Managing & Poetry Editor, HEArt (Human Equity through Art), and author of Slag

ISBN: 978-1-936628-32-2
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Mother, Loose
Brandel France de Bravo

Mother, Loose was selected by Patty Paine for the Judge's Choice award in the 2014 Poetry Chapbook competition. "Full of ripe, aching music, Brandel France de Bravo's Mother, Loose captures the overlap between what we chant as comfort and what we choose as elegy. Nursery rhymes become impishly twisted: 'Social climber, / they called me,' Humpty Dumpty admits, while Mary and her lamb pick out 'Teat Peach' polish to get their nails done. Deft and heartbreaking, these poems ask us to step out from under the sheltering wing of Mama Goose, and into the arms of Morpheus. Let this collection cradle your heart in its hand."-Sandra Beasley

ISBN: 978-1-936628-28-5
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Childhood
Emily R. Grosholz

"These eloquent, edgy poems write of youth and parenting in powerful ways. They also go well beyond that, in addressing childhood as revelation: not just the temporal state we all go through, but the crisis of wonder our own children produce in us. Any reader who picks up this book can draw closer to that wonder and share in it again through this lyrical, moving work."-Eavan Boland, Professor of English, Stanford University and Member, Irish Academy of Letters

ISBN: 978-1-936628-27-8
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pendulum
Eric Scott Sutherland

"The poems in this humane collection are hard and beautiful. They are hard, because the locals here are marginalized and somewhat lost, yet beautiful because they live with hope, and because each poem in this heartfelt book is accompanied by singing. Behind this cast of characters is the poet himself, a living spirit, capturing the human voice, swinging back and forth like the symbol evoked by the title of this honest and necessary collection. This is at once a portrait and a vision rendered into lines, notation for a place and time and the saintly people there. It is a gift to be in such able hands, and a further gift to turn the pages of their labor. Three cheers for this delight!"-Maurice Manning

ISBN: 978-1-936628-25-4
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Square Feet
Lori A. May

"Each of Lori A. May's vivid aphoristic poems in Square Feet raises a miniature window into a moment of marriage or domestic life. Unadorned and unafraid, May's lines recreate these scenes of love and angst in dioramas of plain words and short lines. Square Feet gives us sex and despair, yes, but also quizzical whimsy. The truths of wry surprises make these poems the work of a mature heart and a trenchant tongue."-Molly Peacock

ISBN: 978-1-936628-22-3
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Biblia Pauperum
T. Crunk

"I've been a huge fan of T. Crunk's poetry since his marvelous, Yale-winning debut, Living in the Resurrection. The poems in that volume and from the nearly two decades since its appearance have always seemed to me essential, life-giving, full of delights all too rare these days, and wisdom, yes, real wisdom. If the poems in this new volume are leaner, hungrier, more restless and questing, than any we've seen from him before, they've lost none of the vitality, the sense of having grappled with the ineffable and emerged from unknowable, echoing depths, that Crunk's work always possesses. There are poems here ('Crows,' 'Ants,' the long 'Purgatory (Studies)') that are as good as any I know of being written today. T. Crunk is one of my very favorite contemporary poets" -Davis McCombs

ISBN: 978-1-936628-21-6
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Communion
Nettie Farris

"These poems tell the love story of s, a shy everyman who excels at tic-tac-toe and loves small, moist dumplings and n, a right-brained everywoman who reads Wittgenstein and Anaïs Nin and prefers large dumplings. Somehow they make it work. In these big-hearted, clear-eyed, short-lined gasps, Nettie Farris grasps that the key to dilly-dallying is to sigh into little poems, to amuse oneself with a pink balloon from time to time, and to pursue the Rosetta Stone to someone else's heart." - Tom C. Hunley

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-19-3
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Broken Tulips
Jeremy Paden

"The poems in this fine collection view love as both a desire and a dilemma, the kind of passion found in other poets willing to confront the heart with such honesty, namely Neruda. If desire is ever perfect, it is only perfect once-and then what? That last flicker of a question is a sharp yet satisfying pang running through these poems. Meanwhile, behind the intensity shared by two, we have the wider world, which is either indifferent or falling apart. These poems are not simply wise or desperate-they are both at once." - Maurice Manning, Author of The Common Man

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-18-6
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Reliquary
Matthew Minicucci

"Part flesh, part spirit, partaking of both breath and death like all reliquaries, these poems traverse the Stations of the Cross in order to become, themselves, stations of the human lost-and found. Compelling in their voice, vision, and craft, Matthew Minicucci's poems seek nothing less than a kind of transubstantiation: 'an incantation in the breath,' a 'simple song that waits and swells the tongue.' This is a remarkable and moving debut." - Angie Estes, Author of Tryst.

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-13-1
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The Fifteenth Station
E. K. Mortenson

The Fifteenth Station is the winner of the Judge's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest. "George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan poses the question: "Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?" E. K. Mortenson has the imagination cried out for. The Fifteenth Station performs one mighty task of poetry: Gospel-truth. This sequence translates the Passion into compassion, from condemnation to resurrection, using subtle technique in the service of bold story-telling, and story-telling in the service of empathy, challenge and engagement" - J. Kates, Author of Metes and Bounds.

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-15-5
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The Long View Just Keeps Treading Water
James Doyle

The Long View Just Keeps Treading Water, winner of the 2011 Accents Publishing International Poetry Book Contest Editor's Choice Award, is a work of poetic art from established author James Doyle. His poetry, like a time machine, takes the reader on a journey into history and offers an opportunity to discover the timeless thread of humanity that joins everyone throughout the ages. "Svelte, smart, amusing, serious and observant poems - many of which I would be proud to have written." - Tony Hoagland

ISBN: 978-1-936628-10-0
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Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs
Andrew Merton

"Andrew Merton's poems have many qualities that are both pleasurable and startling. He demonstrates the simplicity that is only gained by hard application, he brings a wry approach that flips the reader from an ambience of ironic nostalgia into the abyss of historical violence and personal grief, he mixes a playful surrealism with the knack of capturing both the hilarious and the deadly, and pulls off the visual psychologist's trick of making the familiar strange and puzzling. All of this is delivered in that most serious of all modes, a graceful sense of humour. This is one of those collections you will often re-read." - Rory Brennan

ISBN: 978-1-936628-09-4
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Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

"There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the gift of this gorgeous collection." - Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Author of At The Breakers: A Novel

ISBN: 978-1-936628-07-0
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Etcetera's Mistress
Thom Ward

Etcetera's Mistress is Accents Publishing's first full-length book of poetry, written by award-winning poet Thom Ward. "Reading Thom Ward is to enter a brilliant and restless imagination - sometimes poignant, sometimes crazy-with-a-purpose, but always with a deep lucidity in the logic of its illogic. His poems remind me how much we need language and how much the language needs us." - Thomas Lux, Author of God Particles

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-03-2
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Fading Into Bolivia
Richard Taylor

"Time is unrelenting, relationships fragile, loss certain, writes Richard Taylor in Fading Into Bolivia, his new collection of clear-eyed and graceful poems. But the reader is not left wanting, for what is broken, Taylor also tells us with characteristic good humor and optimism, will one day 're-incorporate with perfect wholeness.' Reality tempered by hope: what an inviting and useful collection of poems!" - Maureen Morehead, Author of The Melancholy Teacher

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-05-6
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How Swallowtails Become Dragons
Bianca Spriggs

"In How Swallowtails become Dragons, Bianca Spriggs proves herself to be a poet of metamorphosis - a shape shifter, a medium for the dead and imagined. She speaks for those long silenced and for those who remind us to never make a pact with our own silence. In these pages we meet Sweet Evenin' Breeze; Orfeu Negro; the Boabab Girl; and even Eurydice Thomas, a lazarus slave sold dead for parts. But in these pages we also meet a poet who is willing to welcome the wild into her own house, and even into her sleep - a poet willing to reach deep into the dark depth and mine that bit of light last remaining." - Rebecca Gayle Howell, Author of The Hatchet Buddha

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-01-8
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Of a Bed Frame
Dan Nowak

"From the coldness of the Nebraska winter to the heat of a lover's bed, Dan Nowak takes the reader on a compelling lyric journey. He shares intimate moments with his audience, crafting his words so that we feel the scratchiness of the seldom worn suit, the skinned knuckles from the loading bays, and the sweat of a lover's skin. There are poems here to savor and reread and then reread again." - P. Andrew Miller, Author of The Legend of The Turquoise Knight

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Original Ruse
Barbara Sabol

"There is an attractive restlessness in Barbara Sabol's poems that draws the reader in. Original Ruse begins in the garden with a deft and playful take on Eve's role in getting things moving. Then, with sure craft and lush imagery, Sabol goes on to explore connections between art and survival, the ordinary and the mythic, people and animals, women and men. These are fresh, lively poems to read aloud and savor." - Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo

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Metes and Bounds
J. Kates

This chapbook was chosen by contest judge Dr. Richard Taylor as the winner of the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.

"Kates's brief lyrics, in taut lines that employ rhyme, often slant, are full of chainsaws, mauls, and the finished product . These are quintessentially New England poems to savor." - Maxine Kumin, Former U.S. Poet Laureate

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Meeting Dad
Brian Russell

"Meeting Dad is a suspense story that every father and son should read together. Brian Russell shows how a boy, abandoned by his father, can gradually work his way through longing and regret to understanding and forgiveness." - Neil Chethik, Author of FatherLoss: How Sons Deal With the Deaths of Their Dads

"...With flash, sass, poignancy and the incomprehension that those who are abandoned always retain, Brian Russell tells this story. It is a moving tale, a wicked saga in all ways, since it forces the boys [Brian and his brother] to glimpse what could have been, but was withheld. Meeting Dad recreates a shining hour, a tarnished hour." - Molly Peacock, Author of Paradise, Piece by Piece

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The View from Down Here

This is Jude Lally's first poetry collection.
"These unflinching poems let us walk in unfamiliar shoes of someone who sees the world from wheels, revealing our customary world with re-imagined perspectives that are powerful and empowering. They give us words and heart to re-discover the ligatures that bind us, world to world, human to human." - Richard Taylor, Author of Rail Splitter

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Smoke
Kevin Nance

After a lifetime of writing, poet, writer, journalist, photographer and podcaster Kevin Nance publishes a full-length collection of longer poems. Smoke is an immersive and evocative, celebratory and heartbreaking journey towards a life of authenticity, personal values and hard-earned freedom.

"Kevin Nance's Smoke is a major literary achievement, from a voice distinctly Southern and at the same time universal in its themes of longing, memory, and love for the created world in all its manifestations. Such a delight to read poems from a fellow farm boy! I hear echoes of W. H. Auden and Maurice Manning, another great Kentucky poet. Nance's poems are tender, poignant, elegiac, and at the same time as invigorating as any honest engagement with the past-the real past, the authentic past-should be."-Fenton Johnson

ISBN: 978-1-961127-17-3
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Hopkinsville
T. Crunk

A memoir in prose poetry, Hopkinsville represents the pinnacle of T. Crunk's skill as a poet, as well as a prose writer. An ode to a place and its people and their shared past, every page both moves and informs the reader.

" Hopkinsville is not so much a personal memoir as it is an evocation of place during the author's childhood and ascent to adulthood, an excavation of memory to recreate a particular place that in some magical way becomes every small town. The author works through a lens, not a mirror. One can almost reconstruct the core of a community, building by building, event by event, whether it be a church social, a first meeting of long-lost siblings, or the wonder of fireworks at the county fair. It is a walking tour to a time and place seen through the illuminating lens of a poet who renders lives in ways reminiscent of James Agee's classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a portrait that is thoroughly alive and moving."-Richard Taylor

ISBN: 978-1-961127-15-9
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The Gospel of God Boy
Christopher McCurry

In his second full-length poetry collection, Christopher McCurry immerses the reader into the world of God Boy and his struggles and complicated relationships with engaging and well-crafted poems that cannot leave us indifferent to the character's evolution.

"Christopher McCurry's The Gospel of God Boy is poetry for contemporary America. The poems use the genre designations Christian scriptures-Gospel, Apocrypha, Revelation, Parable, Prophecy-and the mythic structures of brother stories (Cain and Abel, the older brother and the younger brother) to tell domestic and mundane stories about what we owe each other and how we fail one another. Despite their constant nod to theological and religious narrative structures, the language is sparse, common, antitheological, and antipoetic, except to the extent that it is tied to the world of the bodily senses."-Jeremy Paden

ISBN: 978-1-961127-09-8
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The Chaos of Desire
Marin Bodakov

This collection of poems by late Bulgarian poet Marin Bodakov, selected and translated by Katerina Stoykova, brings to English language readers Bodakov's minimalistic style-a few sparse words, each integral to building the structure of the poem. Nothing excessive or gratuitous. Yet somehow, the atomic cage of the poem unlocks something inside the reader-releases the trapped energy of unsaid truths.

"Bodakov's poems rank alongside those of his contemporary surrealist masters-Charles Simic, Mark Strand, Octavio Paz, Nicanor Parra. Deftly translated by Katerina Stoykova, each work is spare, sinewy, full of small but powerful surprises that induce you to blink, pause, begin again. These are poems to linger over. Each reading brings new rewards."-Andrew Merton

ISBN: 978-1-961127-11-1
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Woe & Awe
Lisa M. Miller

The poems in Lisa M. Miller's debut poetry collection, Woe & Awe, draw us in with their timeless perspective and contemporary language and hold us with their fearless depth and beauty.

"Throughout Woe & Awe, Lisa M. Miller invokes the voices of female ancestors, physical and spiritual, who dare to suggest, "What if adversity has always been/essential?" Sustained by their spirit, Miller wrestles intergenerational and personal trauma in poems of vision, wit, and fierce clarity. Woe & Awe spans a lifetime, addressing personal crises, cultural history, and the Jewish diaspora. By the end of the volume we've seen the poet rendered whole, daughter and mother, deep in the joy of her own daughters, carrying her darkness and bearing the care of others who've been damaged."-Leatha Kendrick

ISBN: 978-1-961127-08-1
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Blast Radius
Douglas E. Self

Blast Radius is the first published volume of poetry by Iraq veteran Douglas E. Self. This book is a powerful examination of the devastating effects of PTSD on every aspect of a veteran's life.

"Doug Self's inaugural chapbook of poetry, Blast Radius, indeed creates wildly imaginative collateral waves of unforgettable language that continue to thunder and reverberate long after you close the volume. Self employs a deft matter-of-fact, often tongue-in-cheek, documentary delivery that makes its subject matter percussive and absolutely inimitable."-Joseph Bathanti, North Carolina Poet Laureate (2012-14)

ISBN: 978-1-961127-06-7
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A Field of First Things
Greg Pape

In A Field of First Things, you can read some of Greg Pape's best work, featuring narrative poems of beauty and compassion, poems addressing the complex interdependence between humans and the natural world.

"From Captiva Island's dock to a shared deep dive into Moby Dick, to the crashing waves in the South Bay, to a pool of mountain water, Greg Pape transports the reader across liquid time. Imbued with the trust of a loyal dog, we ride along like Lulu, marveling at Sandhill cranes and bucks in the Bitterroots, stare out at wide open mysterious desert nights and back into the still wet lives of people who have earned their venerable places in a constellation of shimmering memories. A Field of First Things allows the reader to experience the full power of a master poet who carries us willingly along on a journey where we are at once the ocean and the whale. And we all rise to the surface better for it."-Frank X Walker

ISBN: 978-1-961127-01-2
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Fathers
Richard Taylor

"True to his title, there are many fathers (along with a few prominent women) celebrated here, foremost his own father Joe Howard "Buzz" Taylor, as well as ancestors like Reuben Taylor, first of his Kentucky line, surrogate fathers including his Uncle Louis and best friend David Orr, and his son, now a father himself, continuing the generational saga. But recalling that the child is father of the man, the chief reason to welcome this book is for the insights it affords into Taylor's early life story, including nostalgic accounts of his childhood in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Taylor says this may be as close to an autobiography as he is apt to write, which is all the more reason to cherish these sketches from the life of a true Kentucky literary treasure."-Larry W. Moore

ISBN: 978-1-961127-02-9
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Boney-Fingered Reach for God
Mark Russell Brown

" Boney-Fingered Reach for God is a remarkable debut, a testament to Mark Brown's striking imagination, energetic vocabulary, and devotion to intense love relationships. This three-part work is fueled as well by the poet's appreciation for the bizarre in historical situations, culminating in poems that literally radiate around the life of Marie Curie. Brown's vulnerable investigations of love and his wacky narratives are made all the more vibrant by the poet's metaphorical skill. It is bittersweet that the gracefully sequenced Boney-Fingered Reach for God is also Mark Brown's posthumous signature, the life of a poet cut short."-Molly Peacock, author of A Friend Sails in on a Poem

ISBN: 978-1-936628-99-5
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The Invisible Arm of Peace
Khairi Hamdan

Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you an English language collection by Jordanian-Bulgarian poet Khairi Hamdan, selected and translated by Katerina Stoykova. In these poems you will find the sand of the Sahara Desert, the Bedouin, the Dervish, and unmediated conversations with God. You will encounter destroyed temples, refugee camps, border patrol, children with nontraditional names. You will also find lyrical poetry of intimate tenderness and the unrelenting drive to be a better human being.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-93-3
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Girl
Wendy Jett

Wendy Jett's debut book, Girl is a mixed-genre family story, told through the innocent perspective of a young daughter, granddaughter, sister, friend. Stories and poems propel the narrative both in action and in emotion. Triumphs, tragedies, mysteries and cooking recipes work together to add their flavor into this full-bodied world.

"In honest and captivating language, Jett weaves a mixture of story, poem, song, and recipe. The result is a compelling and heartfelt story where the underlying tension builds beautifully to an unexpected end. Wendy Jett is a born writer, poet, and all around marvelous storyteller. Exhale and read again."-Allison Thorpe, author of Reckless Pilgrims

ISBN: 978-1-936628-96-4
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Strictly From Hunger
Jennifer Litt

Strictly From Hunger by Jennifer Litt is a powerful debut collection by a poet who has spent decades mastering a diverse set of literary skills, including writing fiction, poetry, teaching and consulting. The voice is playful, yet fearless, and walks us through events personal yet relatable.

" Strictly from Hunger is a poetry collection that remembers a life well spent. These poems reach into early memories and reflect on dreams dared, mistakes made, and desires pursued through the years. Snapshots of first jobs and first loves mature into snapshots of a marriage ended and a marriage begun, before shifting to last moments with loved ones. Jennifer Litt deftly weaves nostalgia together with exuberance for the small ecstasies of being alive, illuminating the wisdom of embracing the present with an eye to both the past and the future."-Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

ISBN: 978-1-936628-94-0
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Bardo of Becoming
Pat Williams Owen

" Bardo of Becoming is full of tender, questioning memories of a beloved father, a departed dog, a cherished partner-all of them gone now, leaving the writer with the small sensual details that make up a life; taste of cheese and crackers dissolving in the mouth, delicate scent of amaryllis, an ancient address book stuffed with post-it notes, all evidence of a life vibrantly lived, and living still in present time. In Owen's world the dead and the living rub shoulders, and the bardo of becoming is fresh as spring grass under a young girl's fingers, and always happening now."-Alison Luterman

ISBN: 978-1-936628-91-9
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I Am Woman
Yvonne M. Johnson

Accents Publishing's first poetry collection by Affrilachian poet Yvonne Johnson, I Am Woman, is an exploration of how patriarchal societies define womanhood. Many women find themselves in a world where rape culture and purity culture dominate how they view their body and what it means to be a woman. This chapbook confronts many topics from the sexualization of the female body and a lack of sexual education to experiences of sexual abuse and the complexities of gender.

"Yvonne M. Johnson's poetry possesses an unflinching honesty and lyrical beauty even in the midst of painful subjects. The poems of I am Woman are strongly womanist and Affrilachian. Johnson explores the nuances of gender and sexuality with lyrical compassion and gives female bodies voice."-Kelly Norman Ellis

ISBN: 978-1-936628-87-2
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Selected Short Stories
Ludmil Todorov

Accents Publishing is thrilled to bring to you the selected short stories of Ludmil Todorov. This is the first opportunity for the English-speaking reader to experience the unique storytelling voice of this accomplished Bulgarian author, screen writer and filmmaker.

"With his eloquent, new story collection Ludmil Todorov offers readers an array of delightfully flawed Bulgarian characters that find unique, interesting, and often marvelously amusing ways of coping with life. It reads like a fun guide for how people should and should not behave in the world."-Toni Ann Johnson, author of Homegoing

ISBN: 978-1-936628-82-7
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Homegoing
Toni Ann Johnson

Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson follows a middle-aged African-American woman facing loss as she returns to her conservative white hometown. This fearless book tackles issues such as race, isolation, childhood trauma, abandonment and ultimately healing. Homegoing won the Accents Publishing Inaugural Novella Contest.

"Toni Ann Johnson has in Homegoing harnessed the unique power and grace of the novella. There's not a wasted word in this cinematically told, immediately engaging story, and yet the form affords her the length to develop characters whose deeply felt humanity makes them memorable."-Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Coast of Chicago, a New York Times Notable Book

ISBN: 978-1-936628-66-7
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In With the Old, Out With the New
Jude Lally

Accents Publishing is proud to bring to you Jude Lally's third volume of poetry. In With the Old, Out With the New arrives eight years after I'm Fine But Thanks for Asking and eleven years after The View From Down Here -the very first book to come out of Accents Publishing.

"In this year of COVID, we bump up against imposed boundaries that close in our lives. But now we have Jude Lally's third volume of poetry to help us put some perspective on what it means to live a confined life. With sharp wit, understated humor and an ear for language, he invites us into a constrained world that he has made expansive."-Jim Lally

ISBN: 978-1-936628-63-6
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Open Burning (Paperback)
Christopher McCurry

Please note that this is the paperback version of the book. For the hardcover version, see below, or click here.

At times elliptical and surreal, the emotional and psychological landscape of these poems is punctuated by flashes of the real risks and rewards of navigating difficult times with grace and compassion. Through the magic of these well-crafted poems, we become invested in the seemingly inconsequential as well as the life-changing.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-61-2
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Masked Man, Black
Frank X Walker

"Professor Frank X Walker has yet again used his superpowers to insert a conscience into the tumultuous cacophony that is social media. His latest series of poems debuted in our news feeds, week after week, speaking truth to the tangled web of perspectives splattered across our digital landscape. By spreading light in our darkest times, our Professor X speaks to a class of students, who have been mutated by the pandemic, by political doublespeak and visions of violence and brutality from around the world. With each new line of prose, our Professor X reads our minds and speaks to our hearts. Catharsis and metamorphosis are experienced simultaneously for the reader."-Willard C. Watson III

ISBN: 978-1-936628-59-9
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The Junkie Who Loved Horses
Sonja de Vries

This book contains beautifully authentic poems by formerly incarcerated men. These poems do not leave the reader indifferent. They teach, surprise, delight, break your heart. We're thankful for the hard work Sonja has put into editing this collection and we're honored to carry it out into the world.
"These poems are raw and unflinching. They are filled with regret and possibility. They pay tribute to those loved and lost and confess their humanity on each and every page. If you need to escape, inside this cake is a saw."-Frank X Walker

ISBN: 978-1-936628-57-5
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Open Burning
Christopher McCurry

At times elliptical and surreal, the emotional and psychological landscape of these poems is punctuated by flashes of the real risks and rewards of navigating difficult times with grace and compassion. Through the magic of these well-crafted poems, we become invested in the seemingly inconsequential as well as the life-changing.

"The poems in this rich collection are both spare and candid, chronicling the demise of a marriage, even as it nearly coincides with a father's blooming love for his young daughter. One love is lost, but a wholly different love arrives. At times the contrast is inexplicable and the speaking voice in these poems doesn't quite know to whom the poems should be addressed. That is a perspective I find so arresting in this book, a crossroads of grief that has no bottom and love that has no end, weighted with the plain responsibility of somehow going forward.
-Maurice Manning

ISBN: 978-1-936628-55-1
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Literary Accents, vol. 1 issue 2
Accents Publishing

If you're not already a subscriber, you can now order Volume 1, Issue 2 of Literary Accents. This issue focuses on funny poems, in the broadest sense of the word.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-53-7
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Literary Accents, vol. 1 issue 1
Accents Publishing

If you're not already a subscriber, you can now order Volume 1, Issue 1 of Literary Accents. This magazine features 56 poems of up to 50 words by 35 masters of the short poem. Please also consider buying a print or digital-only subscription to the magazine.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-51-3
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Second Skin
Katerina Stoykova

" Second Skin by Katerina Stoykova is a brief, but more than sufficient book. It is more than sufficient to expose the issue of domestic violence, and along with one child's fear-the fear of every child forced to love an abusive parent. The second skin you wear to hide what happens at home; second skin that cannot contain you. A book about the guilt due to the inability to forgive, about hatred towards the one who has moved on and forgotten. A book about the children cowering in the corners of their own powerlessness, who thirty years later continue hearing the screams from the other room. Difficult, true, and exceptionally important."-Natalia Deleva

ISBN: 978-619-7153-43-9
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Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive
Pat Williams Owen

"What words to describe the poems in Pat Owen's new collection, Orion's Belt at the End of the Drive? I find them meditative, prayerful, haiku-like in their brevity and subtle wisdom. They move fluidly from natural to urban, solitary to communal, river to ocean, young to old, dark to light, observation to appreciation. They're built of questioning, of living, and of a deep desire to understand the self, others, and to find peace in a chaotic world and within the context of mortality."-Maureen Morehead

ISBN: 978-1-936628-47-6
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Fountains for orpheus
Audrey Rooney

"In Fountains for Orpheus, Audrey Rooney invites us to bring our artist eyes to the beauty-filled and bewildering scenes of her well-lived life. 'Come, Gardener,' she writes, and we are introduced to a world of violet skies, river deaths, and small talk. She's a keen writer, wise and intelligent. Emotionally, she never strays far from her music or her man. Congratulations to Audrey for this delightful debut collection!"-Neil Chethik

ISBN: 978-1-936628-45-2
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Circe's Lament: Anthology of Wild Women Poetry
Bianca Lynne Spriggs, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Eds.

" Circe's Lament collects work by some of the best poets writing today-from Ellen Bass to Frank X Walker-in celebration of the wild feminine: the fierce, the furious, the bruised and battered, the hilarious, the mythical, the stereotypical, the fairytale turned inside out. Here you'll find Miss America and Janis Joplin, Barbie and Medusa, along with-in Nickole Brown's stunning and tender homage-a grandmother who can cuss up a storm and uses 'fucker' as a term of endearment. The women in these poems behave in the most unladylike ways-swearing, sexing, drinking, dancing, hitting back, running away, bleeding, broke and broken. But just when you might start to think this celebration of 'the bad girl' is veering toward romanticizing her, comes a poem like 'The Girl,' by Linda Casebeer-as heart-breaking and frank and true a poem about being young and female and vulnerable and tough as I've ever read anywhere. Read it and weep. And be grateful for the work these editors have done to bring these voices to us."-Cecilia Woloch

ISBN: 978-1-936628-41-4
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Wash the Dust from My Eyes
Nana Lampton

In this first-of-its-kind collection of nonfiction, poetry, art and photography 100 years in the making, Nana Lampton combines the journal entries of her grandfather-a World War I cavalryman uncertain about the future the war holds, yet ready to play his part-with her own poetry inspired by his writing. As she reaches back through a century to see the world from his perspective, Lampton invites the words of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius to illustrate the timelessness of feelings that we can all appreciate-apprehension, ambition, camraderie, and love-in the face of war and in the hope for what comes after.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-38-4
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About Flight
Frank X Walker

"Up until this point in American history, no poet has written an honest and believable lament about the crippling effects from the tornado swirl of a crack pipe, how a little rock being melted between thin mesh screen creates pallid smoke: a monster, a slave to the white lady that is cocaine. In About Flight, Frank X Walker gives us the beautiful ugly narrative of a brother who is wrestling with chemical dependency, and losing. The high, in all of its beautiful contradictions takes on the metaphor of flight, and so we soar through the terrible highs and lows of a protagonist who carries his family with him into the den of iniquity."-Randall Horton, author of Pitch Dark Anarchy & Hook: A Memoir

ISBN: 978-1-936628-36-0
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This Wretched Vessel
Christopher McCurry, Hap Houlihan and Robin LaMer Rahija, Eds.

This Wretched Vessel is a 162-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. Our favorite poems were selected from those submitted, and the result is an emotional, courageous, and sometimes funny poetry collection featuring the work of 114 authors.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-35-3
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Deflection
Roberta Beary

"I feel astonished, happy, and lucky to have discovered Deflection. Roberta Beary's poetry is animated with principles of Haiku, illustrative of the form but reliant on other traditions. Her work shows that a gifted poet can assert all manner of styles within a poem, sharing interests of each to give us a new breed. It's a bright sunshiny day when we get surprising, evocative, powerful poetry coined from the gold standard of ancients. These poems are vibrant with lived experience and shockingly beautiful with new expression. The lines and poetic forms are prisms from the classical, and lyrical, to distilled Asian thought. This book is essential in furthering the art of poetry."-Grace Cavalieri

ISBN: 978-1-936628-33-9
Softcover, 5½" x 8½"
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Kingdom of Speculation
Barbara Goldberg

In this book you will be under the spell of imagination that is truly impressive. But, more than that: you will fall in love with Barbara Goldberg's syntax. The way her sentence works against her line-breaks, creating fireworks, is a fairy tale in and of itself. Her poems are magical, not because they contain princesses and ravens and thieves of eggs. They are magical because their music grabs us and won't let us be. The secret to true music cannot be understood. It can only be applauded. -Ilya Kaminsky, Author of Dancing in Odessa

ISBN: 978-1-936628-31-5
Softcover, 5½" x 8½"
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Your Life as It Is
A. Molotkov

Your Life as It Is is the winner of the Editor's Choice award for the 2014 Poetry Chapbook competition. "Although each of A. Molotkov's daybook prose poems begins with 'You wake up in the morning ...,' everything else-including the speaker's gender-is in flux. This is the multiverse wherein 'changes replace changes,' wherein the speaker must continually create and re-create perception and personal history. These poems create a cumulative effect both moving and unsettling."-Paulann Petersen

ISBN: 978-1-936628-29-2
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Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop
Lynnell Edwards

"Through empathy and penetrating observation, Edwards goes deep inside the art of glassmaking. What she brings back in the form of poems is fascinating-she has absorbed and passes on to us the jargon of the guild, as well as the cautions and the glories the 'kings of the hot shop' encounter on the way to finished creations. It is a small, self enclosed universe, and Edwards its sympathetic cosmologist."-Jeffrey Skinner

ISBN: 978-1-936628-26-1
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Her Limestone Bones
Hap Houlihan and Christopher McCurry, Eds.

Her Limestone Bones is a 122-page collection of poems written and submitted by a diverse group of poets during the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month, in which participants were challenged to write at least one poem a day. The result is an exciting, thought-provoking five-section poetry anthology featuring 75 authors.

ISBN: 978-1-936628-24-7
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The Season of Delicate Hunger: Anthology of Contemporary Bulgarian Poetry
Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

" The Season of Delicate Hunger brings us more than thirty Bulgarian poets whom the translators and editor successfully make us feel we need to listen to. The anthology is a valuable introduction to a wide variety of voices most of us have never heard before. The book comes as a gift both to international understanding and to American literature."-J. Kates, Editor of In The Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era

ISBN: 978-1-936628-44-5
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Scotch Tape World
Tom C. Hunley

"Tom C. Hunley, on the evidence of these poems, is as in love with, as he is bewildered by, the world. And although that might seem a common way of being in the world, Hunley's ability to render his love and bewilderment precisely in his poems is unique and necessary. These poems manage to be funny without being cynical, and they manage to be honest without being cynical, and they manage to seem utterly contemporary without being cynical, and each of these achievements is a small miracle and almost an act of defiance. At one point, Hunley tells God, "I want you to fill my mouth / with water and prayer and maybe a jagged little song." I don't know how Hunley is set for water, and I don't know about his spiritual practices, but these poems read like answered prayers." - Shane McCrae

ISBN: 978-1-936628-20-9
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In Nonestica
Morgan Adams

"Morgan Adams' poems, honed from a marvelous and scrupulous attention to the world and word, simultaneously delight and terrify. In these remarkable poems, the imaginary becomes real and the real, imaginary. Every time I read her poems I am reminded of how enchanted the world is-how strange, how full of wonder." - Catherine Bowman, Author of The Plath Cabinet

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-16-2
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ransom notes
Tina Andry

"Exhale! In ransom notes Tina Andry fills the void in between heartbeats. This collection, like the time in between the left and right ventricles, takes you for a gasping ride that may seem brief, yet each poem stays with you, as they float around in your lungs collecting the air that you inhale." - Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Author of Of Jibaros and Hillbillies

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-17-9
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A Brief Natural History of an American Girl
Sarah Freligh

Winner of the Editor's Choice award in the Accents 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest. "In A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, Sarah Freligh pulls you into the car of a 1950's girlhood and you stay, compelled by the journey through sexual awakening and into womanhood. It's a difficult story. The narrator loses a lot-she gives kisses to the boss at Donut Delite, her virginity to a boy in a cornfield, her body to men she knows, or doesn't. She gives away a baby. She buries her mother. And hope, how 'easy to give her away.' And yet not quite. Through the accumulation of experience, through the ability to look clearly and name what she sees, Freligh insists on possibility. The poems draw our attention, then elicit a shiver of recognition. This is what one girlhood looks like; this is what human experience looks like. The journey is not over, she reminds us. You 'are not there yet.' - Wendy Mnookin, Author of The Moon Makes Its Own Plea.

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-14-8
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Frog Mantra
Suchoon Mo

"Perhaps the rarest gift is to encounter a voice that sings from an unexpected condition. In this lucid collection, poet Suchoon Mo offers this kind of voice. Both worldly and electric, Frog Mantra is a book filled with singing. The poems approach modern life with wit, grace, and keen insight.The reader is presented with scenes that reconfigure our greater concerns about life and death. Mo presents us with a complicated world made clearer by his devotion to observation. The music of Frog Mantra resides in secretive moments, meant to be savored through each page." - Matthew Haughton, author of Stand in the Stillness of Woods

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-12-4
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The Sounding Machine
Patty Paine

With intelligence and an awareness of the limits and possibility of metaphor, Patty Paine explores the fierce unclasping and clasping of memory as she writes of family, history, and our bonds to the world. In The Sounding Machine, she works into the complicated, messy, hearts of situations, not shying away from multiple perspectives; in one poem the devoured prey says of the predator: "It was my blood ... muscle and sinew / warming his gut." One believes these strong forays. - Talvikki Ansel

ISBN: 978-1-936628-11-7
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I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking
Jude Lally

In I'm Fine, but Thanks for Asking, Jude Lally is "still mad as hell" and "ready for the hurt." Illuminating the mundane things in life like going to the bathroom, hopping boulders while hiking, or simply being able to jump out of bed, we are reminded of what is often taken for granted. These poems confess the dreams and demons as well as the daily joys and struggles of a writer facing a rare disease and an uncertain fate. In them, we find him living for today, fully and honestly, with a refreshing sense of humor that offers light and hope amid the darkness. He stares his condition in the face, laughs and escapes into his imagination, determined "not to dry up/and blow away." This collection signals Jude Lally is here to stay, a hardy perennial, a poet that continues to bloom.-Eric Scott Sutherland

ISBN: 978-1-936628-08-7
Softcover, 6" x 9"
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The Deer at Gethsemani: Eclogues
Frederick Smock

"Like Virgil's before him, Frederick Smock's eclogues give us the sense of an earned peace in the clear voice of a man at home in the world. These poems are richly allusive, elemental moments of experience and insight. The Deer at Gethsemani is a well-made house of poetry, and it is a true pleasure to spend time in its rooms." - Greg Pape, Author of American Flamingo

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-06-3
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Animal Time
Greg Pape

"I used to believe that Greg Pape's intimate knowledge of everything that lives and breathes or gives light was earned sleeping beneath the stars at night, but these poems prove that he is everywhere all at once just like the wind. And we know the wind never sleeps... Brilliant beautiful cinematic gems. I still love Coleman and the deer, but I think the rooster poems have become my new favorites." - Frank X Walker, Author of Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-02-5
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Numbered Bones
Bobby Steve Baker

"Bobby Steve Baker pulls out the scalpel and cuts away the superficial and unsecured, slicing through the flesh of lust and musculature of ego until he reaches his own Numbered Bones. Choices are scars chiseled into the body. The bedrock of self is uncovered through the struggle and search for love. The wounds are perfect in their shape." - Eric Sutherland, Author of Incommunicado

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ISBN: 978-1-936628-00-1
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Bloom on a Split Board
Nana Lampton

"'Come along, come along,' Nana Lampton sings in these lovely nature poems. Here she gives us ice, the edge of the sea, the half moon, and the dawn. We consort with dogs, salmon, the ravens, the owl, the warbler, deer, thoroughbreds and Audubon's pet turkey. We breathe the fragrance and sight of Daphne, roses, white catalpa and hydrangeas, wild iris. The spirit hovers and explores, unbounded." - Sena Jeter Naslund, Author of Ahab's Wife and Adam & Eve

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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-8-7
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Bee-coursing Box
Matthew Haughton

"Matthew Haughton's debut collection honors and extends Kentucky's great literary heritage, which stretches from Greenup to Bowling Green, the 18th century to now. In poems that dare 'pray there's a heaven for snakes,' and dare see a man 'growing like a sycamore out of the untamed earth,' he adds his worthy voice to the chorus." - Frederick Smock, Author of Guest House

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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-6-3
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Plein Jeu
E.C. Belli

This English language chapbook is the winner of the Editor's Choice Award for the Accents Publishing 2010 Poetry Chapbook Contest.

"The poetry collection is representative of my esthetics and obsessions over the last year or so," says Belli. "My husband was away for military training this entire winter and I found myself alone in this house full of empty rooms, moths, echoes, and my piano. The collection explores that sense of being new to a place while tugging along memories from previous lives."

"The title Plein Jeu, actually refers to a type of organ registration which is composed of principals, flutes, fournitures and cymbals," explains Belli. "When the plein jeu stop is pulled, it activates all of these other stops as well. It is one of the richest tones that can be achieved. Plein jeu is what the collection feels like to me: all of the voices within me were activated."

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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-4-9
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Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku

The haiku in this book blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. "What I admire about Barry George's poetry is the possibility for human utterance within a contemporary scene - not unlike the lyric poem in modern English - explored in Japanese short forms. In three lines he paints a scene as contemporary as Edward Hopper, strikes notes as American as Aaron Copland. George focuses our attention visually and aurally, and thus each haiku is a cinematic moment casting an afterimage long after the poem closes. Even those who are not familiar with the ever-evolving Japanese short form will find Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku universal in compression and resonance." - Jeanie Thompson, author of The Seasons Bear Us and Executive Director, The Alabama Writers' Forum

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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-2-5
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Stick Tight Man

This is Jim Lally's first poetry collection.
"Like the man covered with stick-tights that cling after a walk in a summer field, these reports from Jim Lally's world -- about falling barns, clothes-lines, spring peepers, ghost trees, poke berries, Quaker meetings, and Daniel Boone (even an homage to the letter W) -- stick with the reader long after the journey. What holds them to us is a discerning eye, an ear for language and for nature in its hummings, a readiness to explore the small ground which opens to the resonating world around us." - Richard Taylor, Author of Rail Splitter

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ISBN: 978-0-9844118-0-1
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